TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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What makes a good friend?
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TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Free French Bombers Over France
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TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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St. Nicholas
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TheCollector
Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Summary of changes for April
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
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What Is an Antipope?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Patterns in Humanity
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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A Clash Of Symbols
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a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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over a year ago
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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The order of inequality
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Why not Keynes?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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